Estimated world literacy rates The bar graph gives data about the rates of estimated world literacy by gender and by region in 2000. It is clear from the graph that the illiteracy rate is higher in developing areas than developed areas. In developed countries, illiteracy rate was the lowest in all six countries which represented under 5%. In Latin America/Caribbean, the illiteracy rate was the second lowest which constituted around 10%.The illiteracy rates were all over 30% in Sub-Saharan Africa,Arab States and South Asia in 2000. Secondly, we can see from the graph that the illiteracy rates of female are higher than male. The biggest difference were found in Arab States which represented 29% and 52% in male and female respectively.In Sub-Saharan Africa, the illiteracy rate of female(49%) was almost 20% higher than male(31%). The gap in the Sub-Saharan Africa was the same as South Africa.Similarly, the difference in Latin America/Canbbean and developed countries were the same which the male rate was 12% and female rate is10% in Latin America/Canbbean and the male rate is 4% and female rate was 2% in developed countries. In conclusion, world literacy rates were high in developing countries. Also, the gap between male and female were larger in developing countries than developed countries.